I have been involved with NASA and FIRST since the end of the 1999 season. I am particularly interested in recruiting more women to engineering and science, and, in particular, to both FIRST and BotBall competitions, since NASA is a major sponsor of both.
I am really interested in recruiting more girls' schools (both middle and high schools). I am the product of a girls' high school (The Bishop's School) and a women's college (Mills) and would like to see if we could come up with a video that we could put on the web, send out in the mail, etc. to girls' schools.
I know that St. Francis in Sacramento (winners of the 2003 Sacramento Regional) and Archer School in Los Angeles would be very willing to help. But I need some more leads in the rest of the country. If you would be willing to appear in a taped video, video conference, or web cast, with your robot, your trophies, some parents, teachers, mentors and maybe even a sponsor or two, that would really help me to get this going.
So please respond, ladies (and gentlemen as well)..PS. I can't promise, but if I can get enough support, that would certainly help...
Flora
fboyer@mail.arc.nasa.gov